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LoadPSIMuonBin v1¶

Summary ¶

Loads a data file that is in PSI Muon Binary format into a workspace (Workspace2D class).

Properties ¶

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
Filename	Input	string	Mandatory	The name of the Bin file to load. Allowed extensions: [‘.bin’]
TemperatureFilename	Input	string		The name of the temperature file to be loaded, this is optional as it will be automatically searched for if not provided. Allowed extensions: [‘.mon’]
OutputWorkspace	Output	Workspace	Mandatory	An output workspace.
SearchForTempFile	Input	boolean	True	If no temp file has been given decide whether the algorithm will search for the temperature file.
FirstGoodData	Output	number		First good data in the OutputWorkspace’s spectra
LastGoodData	Output	number		Last good data in the OutputWorkspace’s spectra
TimeZero	Output	number		The TimeZero of the OutputWorkspace
DeadTimeTable	Output	Workspace		This property should only be set in the GUI and is present to work with the Muon GUI preprocessor.
MainFieldDirection	Output	number		The field direction of the magnetic field on the instrument
TimeZeroList	Output	dbl list		A vector of time zero values
TimeZeroTable	Output	Workspace		TableWorkspace of time zeros for each spectra
CorrectTime	Input	boolean	True	Boolean flag controlling whether time should be corrected by timezero.
DetectorGroupingTable	Output	Workspace		Table or a group of tables with information about the detector grouping stored in the file (if any).
SpectrumMin	Input	number	0	Index number of the first spectrum to read
SpectrumMax	Input	number	Optional	Index of last spectrum to read (default the last spectrum)

The algorithm LoadPSIMuonBin will read in a .bin file from the PSI facility, from one of the various machines that use that format. The file name can be an absolute or relative path and should have the extension .bin. The file should only be loaded if the first two bytes are “1N” representing it as the format that this will load.

LoadPSIMuonBin is capable of loading in accompanying temperature files. There are two options for achieving this. If no file is provided and the temperature file searching enabled (it is by default), then it will recursively search for the file in the current directory of the data file and up to 3 directories deeper than the file.

Any temperature data loaded in from a separate file will be available from the resultant workspace’s sample logs, as a number series that is plottable.

The times are automatically offset by the value for time zero for each spectra, such that the pulse is at approximatly time equals zero. This is to be consistant with the default behaviour for ISIS measurement data but can be disabled by setting the CorrectTime property to false.

If no group name is recorded in the data file a name of group_specNum will be used, where specNum is the spectrum number.